Today Catherine asks: What do you look for in a writing retreat? How structured? How organized? How many other participants?

Pub/Bus Board
Kitty: 383 pgs edited, 1.5 marketing task, compliance 0.5

Word Count
Gail: 20183
Dan: 13560

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Today Nichole asks about our writing software and formats.

Pub/Bus Board
Kitty: 281pgs edited, 1.5 marketing task, compliance 0.5

Word Count
Gail: 20120
Dan: 10051

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Word Count
Gail: 19110
Dan: 9708

Pub/Bus Board
Kitty: 250pgs edited, 1.5 marketing task, compliance 0.5

The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
Robert’s Rules of Writing
The Heroine’s Journey — book and Writing Story Bundle
Buried Alive in the Blues
Antithesis podcast
Down From Ten
Crudrat
Soulless
Changeless
Blameless
Kevin J. Anderson interview on Every Day Novelist
Deep Characterization series

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Today Simon has feedback on the sports episode.

Word Count
Gail: 14733
Dan: 8547

Pub/Bus Board
Kitty: 220pgs edited, 1.5 marketing task, compliance 0.5

Resources Mentioned:
Firefly
Cool Runnings

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Today Nichole asks Kitty about daily schedules and day jobs, asks Gail about the difference between writing steampunk and sci-fi, and Dan whether he’s a concept writer or character writer?

Word Count
Gail: 12776
Dan: 6952

Pub/Bus Board
Kitty: 170pgs edited, 1.5 marketing task, compliance 0.5

Resources Mentioned:

The Open Source Woman
The Coffee Service
The Society of Miserable Bastards
Chicken Noodle Gravity
Suave Rob’s Awesome Adventures
Crudrat
The Clarke Lantham Mysteries
Down From Ten
Into the Broken Lands by Tanya Huff
A Peace Divided (Peacekeeper) by Tanya Huff

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Quick update on where the heck we’ve been and when’s the next episode anyway…

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Today the Nanogang talks about cheating at continuity…

Word Count
Gail: 10398
Dan: 4762.

Pub/Bus Board
Kitty: 120pgs edited, 1.5 marketing task, compliance 0.5

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Leader board: Dan: 2760.
Kitty: 80pgs edited, 1.5 marketing task, compliance 0.5

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The Catcher in the Rye

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Leader board:
Dan: 2760.
Kitty: 80pgs edited, 1.5 marketing task, compliance 0.5

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Word Counts
Dan: 2534

Pub Challenge
Kitty: 1 editing task 1 marketing task

Q993: Using Foreign Languages
Nichole asks: Is there a good way to incorporate foreign languages into fiction?
The Journeyer by Gary Jennings
Aztec by Gary Jennings
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A Heinlein
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

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